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(botany) A family of woody flowering plants in the order Celastrales characterized by pendulous ovules, alternate leaves, imbricate petals, and drupaceous fruit; common members include various species of holly (Ilex).
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
widely distributed shrubs and trees
Synonyms: family Aquifoliaceae, holly family
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 European Holly (Ilex
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Aquifoliaceae is a small flowering plant family with only one genus, Ilex, the hollies, a large genus with about 600 species distributed nearly world-wide, absent only from Australasia and western North America. They are shrubs and small trees, including both evergreen and deciduous species. Many of them are highly decorative.
One other genus, Nemopanthus, was formerly accepted as containing one species Nemopanthus mucronatus, separated
from Ilex on the basis that the flowers having a reduced calyx and narrow petals, and also in cytology, being tetraploid, whereas Ilex is
diploid. However, following molecular analysis, it has now been merged into Ilex, as I.
mucronata [1], [2].
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